The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World

ISBN-13:	9780446698894
Publisher:	Grand Central Publishing
Publication date:	01/05/2009
Pages:	345
Sales rank:	121,949
Product dimensions:	5.20(w) x 7.90(h) x 1.20(d)

Now a new series on Peacock with Rainn Wilson, THE GEOGRAPHY OF BLISS is part travel memoir, part humor, and part twisted self-help guide that takes the viewer across the globe to investigate not what happiness is, but WHERE it is. Are people in Switzerland happier because it is the most democratic country in the world? Do citizens of Qatar, awash in petrodollars, find joy in all that cash? Is the King of Bhutan a visionary for his initiative to calculate Gross National Happiness? Why is Asheville, North Carolina so damn happy? In a unique mix of travel, psychology, science and humor, Eric Weiner answers those questions and many others, offering travelers of all moods some interesting new ideas for sunnier destinations and dispositions.